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...enforcement authorities report that not one shred of reliable evidence has turned up to support these claims -- no documented marks of torture, no bones of sacrificed adults, infants or fetuses and no reputable eyewitnesses. Lorraine Stanek, a Connecticut rehabilitation counselor for trauma survivors, also stresses the lack of evidence. "If you look at the alleged number of deaths that would be accounted for," she says, "there should be bodies in all our backyards." Still, incest-survivor groups are inundated with these claims. Monarch Resources, a California referral service for survivors, is said to receive more than 5,000 calls annually...
...love to quote an 1826 remark by Thomas Jefferson that lotteries are a kind of tax "laid on the willing only." Chon Gutierrez, director of the California lottery, goes so far as to assert, "The lottery is not gambling. It's entertainment." And cheap entertainment at that, says Edward Stanek, commissioner of the Iowa lottery, because ticket buyers "can spend $1 and then spend the rest of the week dreaming what they would do if they actually...
...owns the park, began reclaiming land for the site 19 years ago in Urayasu, a town of 80,000 just outside the capital. In 1974 the company began holding serious talks with officials of Walt Disney Productions, but the negotiations were often tortuous. Recalls Disney Vice President Frank Stanek: "Both sides had to penetrate formidable cultural barriers." A deal was finally struck in 1979, under which Disney agreed to provide its technology, advice and guidance during construction in return for a share of the gross ticket take. Before it was over, as many as 200 Disney employees from...
...Stanek babies were large for sextuplets. They ranged in weight from just under 3 Ibs. to 3 Ibs. 10 oz. Doctors placed them in incubators, and gave four of them extra oxygen to breathe. Even so, their underdeveloped lungs quickly encountered the same respiratory problems that account for half of all deaths among premature babies. The weakest of the six, a girl the Staneks had named Julia, died of hyaline membrane disease, a disorder of the inner lining of the lungs, 44 hours after birth...
Among the known sextuple births, no full set of babies has ever survived. Doctors, who consider the Stanek delivery "a marvelous achievement," were deeply concerned about the shaky condition of three of the Stanek babies. But they were encouraged by the health of two, who seem to be doing "quite well." The father, Accountant Eugene Stanek, 31, mourning the loss of one of the babies, nevertheless at week's end could look forward to the possibility of one day bringing the surviving five home...